Evening Foil Drive Session - 4/22/2025

Good energy in the water today (101 kJ being reported).  Unfortunately it was a pretty low tide.

Roland and Marvin out Foil Drive-ing!!!

And today was the first day I Foil Drove with the AFS Enduro 700 (Mahalo to Mark for letting me borrow it).

Using the last setting from Sunday's winging session, I looked at the differences in the Enduro 900 positioning - wing and FD - and used that to position the mast for the first run.

We all headed out - but Roland and I had to turn back because our drives weren't picking up throttle signals.  After resetting the batteries, we headed out again.

I rode the E700 as is for several waves - but it had that same sense of "stickiness".  I pulled it back a 1/4" and it felt much better.

I was hooking some good turns with this foil - tomorrow I'll try again and push the rear stabilizer up to the forward position and see if that helps loosen up the turns. 

Roland is getting more rides every session.  He was on the Vyper today and he didn't get thrown/bucked off once.

17 rides for me in under an hour.

Epic!!!!

W:31/FD:59/PW:1/S:4

Wing Foiling Session - 4/20/2025

The wind came up early today - when I got to a stopping point on the garage work, I headed over to Hickam (since the tide was pretty low).  I also wanted to dial in the AFS Enduro 700 -

This is where the foil balanced out for me.  I had it set further forward for about half the session - but it seemed like I was having to exert some front foot pressure.  I didn't want to make the adjustment earlier because I didn't want to have to deal with the up and down shifty wind to get back up.  But eventually I did pull the mast back and what a difference!

Getting up on this foil did take a little more effort than the Enduro 900 - but that's to be expected.  As long as the wing was powered, it wasn't an issue.

I had actually wanted to cycle through the stabilizers to see what would work best for the E700 - but I just used the HA40 in the rear position.

The E700 surfs - no surprise and no complaints.  I think next time I'll push the stabilizer up to the short fuselage position to see if it loosens up. 

Pretty up and down.  But at least there is wind that is wingable.

I think with the HA38 I can get this foil over 25mph.

The 23.1mph came from the inside speed runs.

Fun session!!!

W:31/FD:58/PW:1/S:4

Wing Foiling Session - 12/30/2024

The forecast called for strong winds today - but during the timeframe I could be out on the water, it was supposed to be a really low tide (0.3') - that means going to Hickam (or Pavilions)

Mark let me borrow his AFS equipment while he is out of town so....

First up at bat - the AFS Enduro 700

In a nutshell - this foil is incredible!!!

And the engine for today - the trusty North Nova Pro 5.0

This was a good call as the wind was really up and down.  And the low end on this wing really helps with the smaller foils.

I wanted to get the session in and then get packed up in order to beat the traffic home.  These are good stats for the pinched session.

With the wind as up and down as it was, I did not see the need to go outside - and there weren't any waves anyways.

As long as there is wind, this foil stayed up.  Tons of glide - but just not big enough to pump (and least not during the first run).

It does tack decently easy (again as long as there is power to be tapped) - and jibes were really fun.

Good wind when it wasn't lulling.

And in flat water sessions, the speed runs - 

This is where this foil shines - fast but not too jittery.

Fast, but not noisy.  And you don't feel like you are going as fast as you are.

This is also with no footstraps - but where this foil balanced out, I could have used the footstraps (unlike yesterday with the bigger foil - and F One foils like to sit further back than the AFS foils).

This foil is a pleasure to use - but first impressions are that this feels a lot like the F One Eagle 890 and 690 - and those two foils are faster.  I'll need to do more testing on this foil - but knowing what I know, I think the Silk 850 would be a better foil to own (unreal surfing/carving ability - unlike any other foil I've used).

W:156/PW:2/FD:102/F:5/S:29